Re: Poor performance on HP Package Cluster

Are you using the built-in HP SmartArray RAID/SCSI controllers? If so, that
could be your problem, they are known to have terrible and variable
performance with Linux.

The only good fix is to add a simple SCSI controller to your system (HP
sells them) and stay away from hardware RAID.

- Luke

On 9/1/05 7:16 AM, "Ernst Einstein" <Crusader(at)gmx(dot)ch> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've set up a Package Cluster ( Fail-Over Cluster ) on our two HP DL380
> G4 with MSA Storrage G2.( Xeon 3,4Ghz, 6GB Ram, 2x 36GB(at)15rpm- Raid1)
> The system is running under Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
>
> My problem is, that the performance is very low. On our old Server
> ( Celeron 2Ghz with 2 GB of Ram ) an import of our Data takes about 10
> minutes. ( 1,1GB data )
> One of the DL380 it takes more than 90 minutes...
> Selects response time have also been increased. Celeron 3 sec, Xeon
> 30-40sec.
>
> I'm trying to fix the problem for two day's now, googled a lot, but i
> don't know what to do.
>
> Top says, my CPU spends ~50% time with wait io.
>
> top - 14:07:34 up 22 min, 3 users, load average: 1.09, 1.04, 0.78
> Tasks: 74 total, 3 running, 71 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 50.0% us, 5.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 45.0% wa, 0.0% hi,
> 0.0% si
> Mem: 6050356k total, 982004k used, 5068352k free, 60300k buffers
> Swap: 2097136k total, 0k used, 2097136k free, 786200k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
> COMMAND
> 9939 postgres 18 0 254m 143m 140m R 49.3 2.4 8:35.43 postgres:
> postgres plate [local] INSERT
> 9938 postgres 16 0 13720 1440 1120 S 4.9 0.0 0:59.08 psql -d
> plate -f dump.sql
> 10738 root 15 0 3988 1120 840 R 4.9 0.0 0:00.05 top -d
> 0.2
> 1 root 16 0 640 264 216 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.03 init
> [3]
> 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
> [ksoftirqd/0]
>
> vmstat 1:
>
> ClusterNode2 root $ vmstat 1
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
> ----cpu----
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy
> id wa
> 1 0 0 5032012 60888 821008 0 0 216 6938 1952 5049 40
> 8 15 37
> 0 1 0 5031392 60892 821632 0 0 0 8152 2126 5725 45
> 6 0 49
> 0 1 0 5030896 60900 822144 0 0 0 8124 2052 5731 46
> 6 0 47
> 0 1 0 5030400 60908 822768 0 0 0 8144 2124 5717 44
> 7 0 50
> 1 0 0 5029904 60924 823272 0 0 0 8304 2062 5763 43
> 7 0 49
>
> I've read (2004), that Xeon may have problems with content switching -
> is the problem still existing? Can I do something to minimize the
> problem?
>
>
> postgresql.conf:
>
> shared_buffers = 28672
> effective_cache_size = 400000
> random_page_cost = 2
>
>
> shmall & shmmax are set to 268435456
>
> hdparm:
>
> ClusterNode2 root $ hdparm -tT /dev/cciss/c0d0p1
>
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 3772 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1885.34 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 150 MB in 2.06 seconds = 72.72 MB/sec
>
> greetings Ernst
>
>
>
>
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